Blowen tire, has changed my day

While roading my speed rake, some 30 miles from
the field, back to home with my 1030 Case, rake tire
blew 5 miles from home. Why? Not much weight on
a rake, and tires had plenty of air. Tire was toast, so
I just limped along the last few miles to home. Get
home and find a heifer has crawled under the fence
while reaching for apples on the other side, and the
other 11 heifers are trying to learn how to join her.
All this by8:30 am.
So chase heifer back through need deep Alfalfa,
soaking wet with dew, then remove tire, and head
for town. Tire shop is open till noon, and they say
they will put a new tire on and have me out the door
before they close. So I sit in A+W cooling my heels,
drinking coffee and using their free Wi-fie. Some
days I wonder how I ever get anything done !!

Somedays the Bull somedays the horns, such is life. This year It seems everything is breaking including me lol. Just lucky I'm the jack of all trades master of none.

I've had two 4.00/4.80 x 8 tires blow randomly while sitting still. One on my small 2-wheeled cart after I had used it all afternoon. Other one was a front tire on a Cub Cadet garden tractor just sitting in the shop. Neither tire even remotely close to maximum load, both had about 12 psi of air.

Heard of semi-truck tires doing the same thing, but with 90-100 psi. They make a much bigger BOOM.

Tell you what, if I had a burger shack and a tire shop, I'd sure park em right next to each other! Smart!

Dr Evil, a couple years ago I worked on a single axle trailer. It had 15" radial car tires on it.

Had one wheel off, did some welding under the fender, some wiring, put the wheel back on. Finished up, everything good to go...

Next day the owner calls, said the tire was flat!

I'm thinking that was strange, it was fine when I left, looked like a nearly new tire. I never even moved the trailer, repaired it in the driveway right where it was sitting.

I go back, the outside side wall was ripped open, a hole big enough to stick your hand through. Had to have blown just sitting there.

Sure glad that thing didn't blow when I was taking it off, putting it back on, or sitting on it!

2 weeks ago I pulled a head 70 miles home on a home made header trailer. Tires looked old but good. When I got home I saw one tire had 1/3 the tread flew off and I had got home running on chords. Don't know how far I came with it like that.

Could be worse.......they do have the big Papa burger and a root beer float! And to be fair heifers make you a more skilled fencer.

Hi, one time about 35 yrs ago I was towing my backhoe trailer with backhoe on it. I had just turned a corner and right there were about 6-8 people waiting for a bus. When the tandem wheels were right in front of them, one tire blew. I looked in my mirror just in time to see some of them coming back down to earth. Ed Will Oliver BC

Buddy of mine is a eclectic car nut, likes some unusual stuff. Mid 1990's, he buys a small camper for Florida winter activities. Rather than risk a couple days in a truck, he buys a mid 1970's Lincoln Town Car coupe as a pull vehicle. Less than 15K miles, right out of the widow's 18X24 garage on the south side of Chicago. White leather like new, paint is perfect, 460 under the hood, full frame, basically a F250 Camper Special with a REALLY nice cab. Original paint and tires, just needs a new battery. He and my boss head over on Memorial Day to pick it up and head back to MI. Fire it up and head for the SkyWay, he gets about ten miles and starts to hear a thump-thump. Finds a front tire with a basketball-sized tumor hitting the inner fender. Limp to the next exit and find one on a rear tire as well. Now the adventure gets really fun, as they are on the far south side/Hammond/Gary Indiana looking for a tire shop open late on a holiday. This includes the spare tire blowing out and the basketball-tumor one going back on. Suffice it to say a few experiences all turned out really well, a Sears Auto store fixed him up with four new radials at a reasonable price for the circumstances. As I was once told, "We didn't say you would enjoy this, just that you would remember it!"

I love it....
The other11 heifers trying to learn how to join her. Great!

As my tire guy laughed and said when I bought him the 3rd flat one week."You got a lot of tires on that farm don't you"(LOL)Hate to think how many tires I am running on everything.

Blew a steer tire on my tandem last week in front of the bank as a large group of people were coming out the entrance near the street, looked like it scared them pretty good. Another time I rolled the tread off a recap on the lead trailer on a set of doubles with log bunks. I was fully loaded with oak, probably around 150,000 lbs. Still 150 miles from my destination and 75 miles from home after I drop the logs. The tire was still full of air, just rolled the tread off, so I let the air pressure on that tire down to about 75 psi and figured I'd see how long she'd go, letting the inside tire do all the work. Made it all 150 loaded miles to the mill, and the 75 additional miles home no problem, just cut my speed back while loaded. Sure was glad to get the weight off it and continue on home. The steel belts that were showing on that tire were worn smooth as glass when I made it back home.